Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-12
Gre ntness in Youth.

Charles James Fox was in Parliament
st nineteen.
The great Cromwell left the University
of Cambridge al eighteen.
John Bright was never 81 school day
after he was fifteen years old.
Gladstone was in Parliament at twenty
two, and at twenty four was Lord of the
Treasury.
Lord Bacon graduated st Cambridge
when sixteen, and was called to the bar
st twenty-one.
Peel was il Parliament at twenty-one,
and Palmerston was Lord Of the Ad-
mlraltY at twenty three.
John Hampton, sitter graduating st
Oxford, wss g student Ell law in the Inner
temple a. nineteen.
Gustavus Adolphus assembled the throne
at sixteen; before ne was tbirty-four he
was ore OF tire great rulers of Europe.
Judge Story was at Harvard st fifteen,
in Congress at tWenty-nIDe, end Judge Of
the Supreme court of the United States at
thirty-two.
Condo conducted memorable cam
paign at seventeen, and at twenty-five he,
and Turenne also, were OF the most
illustrious men of their time.
Only enc civilian out Of the Presidents
of this country gained his first election
after he was sixty, and that one was
James Buchanan.
Webster was in college at fifteen, gave
earnest Of his great future before he was
twenty five, and at thirty was the peer of
the ablest man in Congress.
William II. Seward commenced the
practice of law OF twenty one; at thirty
NrnSjIl1t Of
and at thirty seven Governor of New
York.
Washington was distinguished
in public affairs, commander Of the forces
at forty three and President at fifty
seven.
Maurice of Saxony died ct thirty-two,
conceded to have been one OF the pro-
foundest statesmen and one of the sbIest
generals which Christendom had seen.
Napoleon at twenty-five commanded
the army of Italy. At thirty he was not
only one OF the most ulustrious generals
of all time, but one of the great law
eivers of the world. At forty-si1 he saw
Waterloo.
The great Leo Y was pope at thirty
eight; having finished his academic train
| ing he took the office OF cardinal at eight
een-only twelve months younger than
was Charles James Fox when he entered
! parliament
William Pitt entered the university at
| fourteen, was chancellor Of the eIchequer
at twenty-five, prime minister at twenty
four and so continued for twenty years,
and when thirty-five was the most power
full uncrowned head in Europe.
Frem the earliest years of Queen Eliza
beth to the latest of Queen Victoria,
England has had scarce an sble states
man who did not leave the university by
the time he was twenty, and many OF them
| left st an earlier age.
The late Lord Beaconsfeld left the
cloister and entered the great world early
as did John Bright-and commenced
his political career by writing book at
seventeen, in which he predicted that he
would be prime minister.
Hamilton was in Kings college ct 16;
when II he made notable address or
public affairs to the citizens of New York
at 20 he was intrusted with most i'm
portant mission to General Gates; was il
Congress at % and Secretary OF the
Treasury at 80.
John Quincy Adams, at the sge of four
teen, was secretary to Mr.. Danap thes
minister at the Russian court; at thipty
he was himself minister to Prussia "a
thirty-flve he was minister to Russia sfa
forty-eight he was minister to England
at tltty-si1 he was Secretary OF State, anS
President at fifty-seven.
Jonathan Edwards acquired early rs
nown as the greatest metaphysicia6 il
America, and as unsurpassed by4z5Qn,
in Europe. he commenced thf feaaaaI
Of Latin when six years old. 81 ten b
: wrote a remarkable paper upen.simmor
tality. At the age of thirteen he X1ksSe
: Yale college, where he graduated zfos
, years later.